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woods. It was such a picturesque spot, she knew 1
jack would have liked it. “Yes,” she said to her-
self, “he must restrain his feelings until the heroine
has bowed him into a portion of the Vaux woods,
where they will be uninterrupted by giggles.”
The story was handed in, and toward the end of
May made its appearance in the pages of The
Lantern.
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In the meantime jack Livingston, on the shores
of Lake Michigan, was becoming desperately tired
of going to dinners and looking out for the Chicago
interests of the firm. He wanted to see some one
who really cared for him, some one who would ask
him out to dinner, even if he did not represent
W. D. Neville & Co., of Philadelphia. He wanted to
be asked out, fondled and admired a little for him-
self. Perhaps he was homesick. At any rate he
decided to shirk social duties and spend an evening
quietly with the Hammersleys. There was such
an air of homelikeness and happiness about their
evenings. Charlie Hammersley had been an upper ‘V
classman of his at college, who had married a T
Bryn Mawr girl a few months’ before. And now
they had a cozy little box just within the margin of
respectability of the North End. They were still at
dinner when jack arrived. So he threw himself